Lawrence Blum
Education......
Teaching......
Areas of Specialization......
BOOKS:......
Edited Books:......
ARTICLES:......
Forthcoming:......
Solicited and Completed:
Selected Reviews and Comments:...... 8
PRESENTATIONS......
1. Named, Distinguished, Keynote, and Honorary Lectures......
2. Philosophy/Political Theory Presentations......
3. Education......
4. Professional Ethics, Public Lectures, Other Venues......
5. Workshops/Consultation/Professional Development/community lectures......
6. Comments......
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE......
1
Lawrence A. Blum
Department of Philosophy
University of Massachusetts, Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
e-mail:
Education
Harvard University, PhD in Philosophy, 1974
Linacre College, Oxford University, 1968-1969, as Knox Fellow
Princeton University, B.A. in Philosophy, 1964
Teaching
1996: (Professor of Philosophy and) Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1988: Professor of Philosophy
1980: Associate Professor
1973 - 1980: Part-time Instructor; Visiting Instructor; Assistant Professor (of Philosophy)
spring-fall 1997: Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
spring 1990: Visiting Professor, School of Education, Stanford University
spring 1984: Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, UCLA
spring 1999, spring 2000, fall 2002, fall 2004: course on Race and Racism at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, Cambridge, MA
Areas of Specialization
Ethical Theory
Social and Political Philosophy
Race Studies
Multicultural Education
Moral Development
Moral Psychology
The Philosophy of Simone Weil
Courses Taught in Education
At Teachers College
Philosophies of Multiculturalism and Cultural Pluralism
Race and Racism
Advanced Topics in Social and Moral Philosophy and Education
At UMass/Boston
Emotion and Principle in Moral Education
Issues and Controversies in Antiracist and Multicultural Education
At Stanford
Moral Education
Feminist Ethics and Education
Courses in Philosophy
Moral and Social Problems
Ethical Theory
Philosophy, Race, and Multiculturalism
Social and Political Philosophy
Equality (also in Women's Studies)
Egoism and Altruism
History of Ethics
Kant's Ethical Theory and its Critics
The Philosophy of Simone Weil
Honors, Awards, Grants
Spencer Foundation award ($40,000) for project “Racial Integration, Equality of Opportunity, and the Ethics of Teaching about Racism in the Course of a High School Class on Racism,” in Jan 1-May 31, 2010
“I’m Not a Racist, But…”chosen for an “author meets critics” session by the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, March, 2005
North American Society for Social Philosophy “social philosophy book of the year” (for “I’m Not a Racist, But…”), 2002
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for College Teachers, 1995-1996
Chancellor's Distinguished Scholarship Award, Univ. of Mass., Boston, 1994, 1981
Fellow in Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, 1992-1993
ACLS Travel Grant, spring 1989 (for Warsaw conference on altruism)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for College Teachers, 1986-1987
Faculty Development Grants, Univ. of Mass., Boston: 1988, 1985, 1976
Summa cum laude in Philosophy, Princeton, 1964
1879 Prize in Ethics (for best undergraduate thesis in ethics), Princeton, 1964
BOOKS:
"I'm Not a Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary of Race (Cornell University Press, 2002)
Moral Perception and Particularity (collection of mostly previously published essays on social and moral philosophy and moral psychology), (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism, (co-author: Victor J. Seidler), New York: Routledge, 1989 (reissued in “Routledge Revivals,” 2010)
Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980 (reissued in “Routledge Revivals,” 2010)
------chapter 3 reprinted in Thomas Carroll, Jr., Social Ethics: Classical and Applied (Kendall/Hunt, 2006)
------chapter 8 reprinted (in Polish) in Joanna Gornicka (ed.), Philosophy of Personal Identity (Warsaw: Aletheia Foundation, 2001)
------chapter 4 reprinted (in German), in Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie2/1997
------chapter 4 reprinted in Clifford Williams (ed.), On Love and Friendship, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1995
-----(portion of) chapter 3 reprinted in James Sterba (ed.), Morality in Practice, 4th ed., Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994 (through 7th edition, 2004)
-----chapter 4 reprinted in Neera Badhwar (ed.), The Philosophical Dimensions of Friendship: An Anthology, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1993
-----chapter 4 reprinted in Joshua Halberstam, Virtues and Values: An Introduction to Ethics, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1988
Edited Books:
L. Baron, L. Blum, D. Krebs, P. Oliner, S. Oliner, and M.Z. Smolenska, Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism, New York: NYU Press, 1992
ARTICLES:
“A Crash Course in Personal Racism,” Ward Jones and Samantha Vice (eds.), Ethics in Film (Oxford University Press, 2011)
“Secularism, multiculturalism, and same sex marriage: A comment on Brenda Almond,” Journal of Moral Education, vol 39, #2, June2010: 145-160
“Racialized Groups: The Socio-historical Consensus,” MONIST, issue on Race, April, 2010, vol. 93, #2: 298-320
“Multiculturalism and Moral Education,” in Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben (eds.), Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University(Duke University Press, 2010): 140-160
“Latinos on Race and Ethnicity: Alcoff, Corlett, and Gracia,” for Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy (ed. S. Nuccetelli, O. Schutte, O. Bueno) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009): 269-282
“Some Reservations about White Privilege Analysis,” Yearbook of Philosophy of Education Society, 2008 [published in 2009; a version has been published as “’White Privilege’: A Mild Critique,” in Theory and Research in Education]: 107-116
“Confusions about ‘Culture’ in Explaining the Racial Achievement Gap, in John Arthur’s Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, vol. 9, #1, fall ’09: 1-5.
“Prejudice,” for Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, ed. Harvey Siegel (Oxford University Press, 2009): 451-468
“’White Privilege’: A Mild Critique,” in Theory and Research in Education, vol. 6, #3, November 2008: 309-322
“A High School Class on Race and Racism,” in J. Entin, R. Rosen, and L. Vogt (eds.), Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader (New York: Teachers College Press, 2008): 83-96 (originally published in Radical Teacher, #70 (fall ’04): 4-10)
“Racial Incidents as Teachable Moments,” in Mica Pollock (ed.), Everyday Antiracism (New Press, 2008)
“Ethnicity, Disunity, and Equality,” in Laurence Thomas (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy(Blackwell’s, 2008): 193-211
“Race, National Ideals, and Civic Virtue,” in Social Theory and Practice, vol. 33, #4, October 2007: 533-556
------(forthcoming) in Joseph DeVitis (ed.), Citizenship Education and Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader (Peter Lang)
“Three Types of Race-Related Solidarity,” Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. XXXVIII, #1, Spring 2007 (Special issue on Solidarity): 53-72
“Racial Virtues” in R. Walker and P.J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Working Virtue (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 2007)
“Best Traditions Patriotism: A Comment on Ben-Porath, Miller, and Wingo,” Theory and Research in Education, March 2007: 61-68
“Race, Virtue, and Moral Education,” (from plenary session), Yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society for 2004 (Chris Higgins, editor) [published March, 2005]: 51-59
“Stereotypes and Stereotyping: A Moral Analysis,” Philosophical Papers (ed. Ward Jones), vol. 33, #3 (November 2004): 251-289
“Reply to Byrne and Silliman re ‘I’m Not a Racist, But…’,” Social Philosophy Today (yearbook of North American Society for Social Philosophy), vol. 19 for 2002 [published in 2004]
“The Poles, the Jews, and the Holocaust: Reflections on an AME Trip to Auschwitz,” in Journal of Moral Education, vol. 33, #2(June, 2004): 131-148
“Systemic and Individual Racism, Racialization, and Antiracist Education: A Reply to Garcia, Silliman, and Levinson,” Theory and Research in Education, vol. 2, #1, 2004: 49-74
“What do accounts of ‘racism’ do?”, Michael Levine and Thomas Pataki (eds.), Racism in Mind (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004): 56-77
“Global Inequalities and Race,” in Philosophical Topics (Chad Flanders and Martha Nussbaum (eds.)), vol. 30, #2, fall 2002 [actually published in March 2004]: 291-324
“Personal Relationships,” in Blackwell’s Companion to Applied Ethics (ed. Christopher Heath Wellman and R. G. Frey) (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2003): 512-524
“The Holocaust in American Life as a Moral Text,” in Eve Garrard and Geoffrey Scarre (eds.), Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003): 257-274
“Racism: What it is and what it isn’t,” in Studies in Philosophy and Education, vol. 21, 2002: 203-218
------reprinted in M. Katz, S. Verducci, G. Biesta (eds.), Democracy, Education, and the Moral Life (Springer, 2009) [essays from Villemain Lecture Series]
“Racial Integration in a Multicultural Age,” in S. Macedo and Y. Tamir (eds.), Moral and Political Education: NOMOS XLIII (NYU 2002): 383-424
------(large portion reprinted) in Randall Curren (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007)
“Recognition and Multiculturalism in Education,” in Journal of the Philosophy of Education, vol. 35, issue 4, November 2001: 539-559
Review-essay of Walter Feinberg, Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), in Teachers College Record, vol. 103, #1, February 2001: 99-111
"Against Deflating Particularity," Margaret Little and Brad Hooker (eds.), Moral Particularism, Oxford University Press, 2000
"Value Underpinnings of Antiracist and Multicultural Education," in Mal Leicester, Sohan Modgil, and Celia Modgil (eds.), Education, Culture, and Values (Systems of Education: Theories, Policies, and Implicit Values) (London: Falmer Press, 2000), 3-14
"Universal Values and Particular Identities in Anti-Racist Education," Philosophy of Education(1999 year book of the Philosophy of Education Society) (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): 70-77
"Social Justice Within and Against Multiculturalism," Transformations: A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship,vol. 10, #2, fall 1999: 52-59
"Race, Community, and Moral Education: Kohlberg and Spielberg as Moral Educators," Journal of Moral Education, vol. 28, #2, 1999:125-143
Essay review of Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Students Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?; Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Phillips, Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism; Benjamin DeMott, The Trouble With Friendship; Harlon Dalton, Racial Healing; Nathan Glazer, We Are All Multiculturalists Now; Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism. For Teachers College Record, vol. 10, #4, June 1999: 860-880
"Ethnicity, Identity, and Community," in Michael Katz, Nel Noddings, and Kenneth Strike (eds.), Justice and Caring: The Search for Common Ground in Education, Teachers College Press (1999)
"Moral Asymmetries in Racism," in S. Babbitt and S. Campbell, Racism and Philosophy, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999)
"Can We Talk? Interracial Dialogue in the University Classroom," Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning[Nov/Dec '98]: 26-37
"'Racial Integration' Revisited," in Joram Graf Haber and Mark Halfon (eds.), Normsand Values: Essays In Honor of Virginia Held, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998
"Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor's and Nancy Fraser's Accounts of Multiculturalism," in Cynthia Willett (ed.), Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate, Blackwell's, 1998: 73-99
"------," (shorter version) in Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, vol 5:1, March 1998
"Schindler's Motives", Psychoculture: Review of Psychology and Cultural Studies, vol. 1, #2, spring, 1997
"Altruism and Benevolence," Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics(Patricia Werhane and R. Edward Freeman, eds.),Blackwell, 1997
"Multicultural Education as Values Education," Harvard Project on Schooling and Children (as of 1999: Harvard Children's Initiative), Working Paper, 1997
"Race, Racism, and Pan-African Identity: Thoughts on K. Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House," for New Political Science,double issue 38/39, winter 1997: 183-202
"Community," in J. J. Chambliss (ed.), Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, 1996
"Altruism and Egoism," Dictionnaire de philosophie morale, (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996)
"Community and Virtue," in Roger Crisp (ed.), How Should One Live? (Oxford University Press, 1996)
"Antiracist Civic Education and the California History-Social Science Framework," in R. Fullinwider (ed.), Public Education in a Multicultural Society: Policy, Theory, Critique, (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
"The Holocaust and Moral Education," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy (School of Public Affairs, Univ. of Maryland), Spring/summer 1995
-----reprinted in Verna Gerhing (ed.), Philosophical Dimensions of Public Policy (Policy Studies Review Annual, volume 13) (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002)
"Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, and Community: Reflections on Charles Taylor's 'The Politics of Recognition'," in L. Foster and P. Herzog (eds.), Defending Diversity: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on Pluralism and Multiculturalism, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994
"Altruism and the Moral Value of Rescue: Resisting Persecution, Racism, and
Genocide," in L. Baron, L. Blum, D. Krebs, P. Oliner, S. Oliner, and M.Z. Smolenska, Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism, New York: NYU Press, 1992
Articles on "Altruism," "Morality of Care," "Personal Relations," and "Simone Weil," in Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. by Lawrence and Charlotte Becker, New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1992
"Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society," Office of Graduate Studies and Research, Univ. of Mass., Boston, 1992
------reprinted in Equinox: Writing for a New Culture, vol. 1, #1, fall 1992: 20-45
-----(portion) reprinted in Instructor's manual for Larry May and Shari Collins Sharratt, Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1993, 2001
-----reprinted in Rita Manning and Rene Trujillo (eds.), Social Justice in a Diverse Society, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Co., 1996
-----reprinted in Gary Kessler (ed.), Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2000)
-----reprinted in Lisa Heldke and Peg O’Connor (ed.), Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance: Theoretical Perspectives on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism (McGraw-Hill, 2004)
-----(forthcoming) reprinted in Larry May, Kai Wong, and Jill Delston (eds.), Applied Ethics, 5th edition (Pearson, 2011)
"Moral Perception and Particularity," Ethics 101 (July 1991): 701-725
"Philosophy and the Values of a Multicultural Community," Teaching Philosophy, June 1991: 127-134
------reprinted (in Polish) in Edukacja Filozoficna, 1993
------reprinted in Lawrence Hinman (ed.), Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus,1996
------reprinted in Barbara MacKinnon (ed.), Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 2nd edition, (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing, 1998)
"Vocation, Friendship, and Community: Limitations of the Personal-Impersonal Framework," in O. Flanagan and A. Rorty (eds.), Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990
"Universality and Particularity," in D. Schrader (ed.), The Legacy of Lawrence Kohlberg, (New directions for Child Development Series, #47, spring 1990), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990: 59-70
"Moral Exemplars: Reflections on Schindler, the Trocmés, and Others," Midwest Studies in Philosophy vol XIII: "Ethical Theory: Character and Virtue," (ed. P. French, T. Uehling, Jr., H. Wettstein), Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1988
"Opportunity and Equality of Opportunity," in Public Policy Review, vol 2, #4 (October 1988): 1-18
-----reprinted (in shortened version) in T. Mappes and J. Zembaty, Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy, 4th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992
"Kohlberg and Gilligan: Implications for Moral Theory," Ethics, vol. 98, no. 3 (April 1988): 472-491
-----reprinted in Mary Jeanne Larrabee (ed.), An Ethic of Care, New York: Routledge, 1993
-----reprinted in Howard Curzer (ed.), Ethical Theory and Moral Problems, Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1998
"Particularity and Responsiveness," in Jerome Kagan and Sharon Lamb (eds.), The Emergence of Morality in Young Children, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987
"Iris Murdoch and the Domain of the Moral," Philosophical Studies, vol 50, #3 (November 1986), 343-367
"Kant's and Hegel's Moral Rationalism: A Feminist Perspective," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol XII, #2, June 1982
"Compassion," in Explaining Emotions, A. Rorty (ed.), Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980
-----reprinted in R. Kruschwitz and R. Roberts, The Virtues: Contemporary Essays on Moral Character, Belmont Calif.: Wadsworth, 1986
-----reprinted in Joseph Grcic, Moral Choices: Ethical Theories and Problems, St. Paul, MN:
West Publishing, 1988
-----reprinted in Clifford Williams (ed.), On Love and Friendship, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1995
"Altruism and Women's Oppression," (with J. Housman, M. Homiak, N. Scheman) in Philosophical Forum, vol V, nos. 1-2, winter 1974-5
-----reprinted in C. Gould and M. Wartofsky (eds.), Women and Philosophy, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976
-----reprinted (in abridged form) in S. Bishop and M. Weinzweig (eds.), Philosophy and Women, California: Wadsworth, 1979
-----reprinted in Blocker and Garner (eds.), Approaches to Ethics, New York: Haven Publications, 1992
Forthcoming [in order of expected publication]:
“Visual Metaphors in Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy,” in Justin Broackes (ed.), Iris Murdoch, Philosopher: A Collection of Essays (Oxford University Press, August 2011)
“Empathy and Empirical Psychology: A Critique of Shaun Nichols,” Morality and the Emotions (ed. Carla Bagnoli) (Oxford University Press, scheduled for 2011 publication)
“Caring and Moral Philosophy,” for Robert Lake (ed.), Letters to Nel Noddings: Mother, Teacher, Scholar, Friend (Teachers College Press)
“Solidarity, Equality, and Diversity as Educational Values in Western Multi-ethnic Societies,” Eva Johansson and Donna Berthelsen (eds.), Solidarity and Individualism in Education and Educational Research (to be published in Sweden)
“Human Morality, Naturalism, and Accommodation: Reflections on David Wong’s Natural Moralities,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy
“False Symmetries in Far From Heaven,” in Susan Wolf and Christopher Grau (eds.), Understanding Love Through Philosophy, Film, and Fiction(Oxford University Press)
Solicited and Completed:
“’B5—it got all the dinks’: Schools and Education on The Wire, for Fran Bartkowski and Sherri-Ann Butterfield (eds.), 24/7 Believe: Watching The Wire
Solicited:
“Benevolence,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics (ed. Hugh LaFollette) (Wiley-Blackwell)
Selected Reviews and Comments:
Review of Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Sympathy (New York: Routledge, 2007), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, posted March ‘08
Review of Amy Gutmann, Identity in Democracy (Princeton, 2003), for Theory and Research in Education, vol. 2, #2, July 2004: 196-198
Review of John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002), Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 8/2/ 2003 (
Review of Joe R. Feagin and Debra Van Ausdale, The First “R”: How Children Learn About Race and Racism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), Teachers College Record, vol. 105, #1, February, 2003: 43-45
------reprinted in MnAEYC: Minnesota Assoc. for the Education of Young Children, vol. 37, issue 3, May/June, 2003: 9, 12
Review of Michele Moody-Adams, Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy(Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997), Mind, vol. 109, #433, April 2000: 1-5
Review of Nathan Glazer, We Are All Multiculturalists Now, Ethics, July, 1998
Review of Sharon Lamb, The Trouble With Blame: Victims, Perpetrators, and Responsibility, Ethics, January 1997
Comment on Martha Nussbaum, "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism," Boston Review, October/November 1994
"Liberalism and Multiculturalism" (review of A. Gutmann, C. Taylor, S. Rockefeller, S. Wolf, and M. Walzer, Multiculturalism and the 'Politics of Recognition'), in Boston Review, fall 1992
Review of Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weilby Mary Dietzand Simone Weil: "The Just Balance" by Peter Winch, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol LII, #1, March, 1992